A waitress at a restaurant I frequent on a regular basis was “chewing the fat” with me while I was having dinner at the bar tonight. She was new to the place, and was as friendly as could be. She was telling me a little about herself. She is divorced and is raising two kids on her own. She also had a boyfriend with a child, and he took off leaving her with his kid. She now has legal custody of his child. She told me she was on unemployment for awhile, but couldn’t do that anymore.
The restaurant is a high end place, and pays restaurant wages plus tips. She commented that minimum wage today cannot buy a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas. She is right. She then commented that one of her co-workers said they should raise the minimum wage. She responded that instead of paying $6.00 for a gallon of gas and gallon of milk, the price would rise to $7.00. She gets it!!!! Here is a single mom with three kids hustling to make a living who gets it.
Why can’t the press? Where is the press? If George Bush were president with unemployment at 9.1% you would see story after story about the homeless. You would see front page pictures of lines of people standing in church soup kitchens and the local food bank. You would see evening news human interest stories of babies whose mothers couldn’t afford milk. Do these folks not exist under Obama? When Bush was president, the unemployment rate was just under 5% and you heard these types of stories ad nauseum over and over and over again.
Right now we are at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen. The latter two are probably illegal and have been “covert.” That alone would have the press screaming if Bush were president. In addition, you would see pictures of flagged draped coffins in airplanes along with interviews with the bereaved families of America’s finest who sacrificed everything for freedom. Do these folks exist under Obama?
It’s no secret the press is left leaning. What is new is they are doing very little now to hide it. The most you can say after the last round of abysmal economic news is they gave a feeble attempt at spin…and it wasn’t very good at that. Their silence speaks for itself.
Even more telling are the Sarah Palin emails. The New York Times and Washington Post called its readers to arms asking them to help sift through the 24,000 Freedom of Information Act pieces of email looking for things to nail Palin!!!! What???? Meanwhile, Anthony Weiner plastered a pornographic aroused picture of himself along with other pictures he took of himself in the Congressional gym across the internet. It was so blatant it was fodder on the Sunday morning Fox News channel last weekend, showing the pictures that appeared on TMZ, the National Enquirer of the internet. And the press said he should wait for his wife to come home from Africa before he decides to resign...as he checked himself into “sex rehab” along with every other left wing Hollywood whacko, all of whom have enough celebrity and money to know better.
But in spite of it all, the waitress at the restaurant who should be a natural Obama constituent figured it out. All of the spin didn’t affect her. She told me she could sit at home on unemployment, or be out in the world with people making a living. She chose the latter. Good for her. She will succeed in this country.
Do you think the press would do a story on her? Don’t hold your breath.
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